skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A unified science is a nice idea in theory but it's not what happens in practice. No scientist would believe that you can somehow combine results from chemistry and psychology, so in effect you have many separate systems. There's not one big idea behind the various fields of science, merely a common method.
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Edward Yang is very much aware of the difference between www and TCP/IP.

http://ezyang.com/ezyang-resume.pdf

Looking at your GitHub your resume is nowhere near as illustrious. Maybe we can go back to the old days where we were just polite and gave our colleagues the benefit of the doubt instead of assuming that lazy terminology is a signal for incompetence?
Have you tried purchasing a typewriter lately? The new market is almost nonexistent, and the used market is a mess! This is definitely a market due for disruption!
Similar situation here, at the moment I've found interesting cppcmms (web framework), odb (orm) and ultimate++ (cross ui framework)
I would love it if instead of having the image move to the center if it is on the outside, instead have the image appear around the thumbnail right where it is like the ones in the center. That would make it win completely. Otherwise it is very nice and simple in a good way.
> Something I don't see anyone else saying: the World Wide Web's primary "language", HTML, being so incredibly un-powerful and reliant on browsers for new features, is an intentional, FOUNDATIONAL design principle, called the Principle of Least Power:

People have been fighting against this since the Web first hit the mainstream circa fifteen years ago now. First it was tables and single-pixel transparent GIFs, then it was a whole lot of Flash and Java and a few sites done pretty much entirely as JPEGs, then those people got their hands on CSS and Javascript, which is pretty much where we are now.

That got us quirks mode, tag soup, and "This website is best viewed with". OTOH, the semantic web never caught on, either, and a lot of great proposals surrounding microformats died due to nobody caring about them.

It's almost a law, really: The Web is never, and will never be, precisely what you want it to be. However, it will likely be good enough.
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> However, if you think people will ignore the warnings and run another browser entirely, that seems like a good argument for letting them use the plugin with Firefox, as long as you have an appropriately severe warning about what it means to let a site access a vulnerable plugin.

An informed user can also make a judgment depending on how trustworthy they think the site is.
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> How will my browser do things such as autofill usernames and passwords, allow links to be opened in new tabs, block third-parties from tracking me with cookies, or allow me to globally change my font preferences if each web page actually uses a different "browser" that it downloaded

"The only thing here that isn't a threat to our business model and/or Design Vision is password autofill. We'll get right on solving that." -- The MBA Voice in my head
Really awesome stuff!
Curiously, I'm the reverse. I've found a lot more interesting kickstarters through the "your friend has kickstarted X" emails that kickstarter sends out than I have through normal social connections (e.g. twitter, IRC, etc).
Is Amazon's boss the new Steve Jobs?
I don't see why you imply there would be no optimizations with C, a compiler like gcc does many optimizations as well with a flag like -O3. With Java you do have JIT of course.
I'm not a security wizard but I do follow security technology enough to know that this is not a wholly new attack. See, for example (from 2006):

http://eh2008.koeln.ccc.de/fahrplan/attachments/1068_SEAT139...

This is not a Firewire specific thing either, even much newer versions of these types of DMA access channels (like Thunderbolt) suffer from the same problems in most implementations.

While this isn't a new thing, having an easily available all-in-one tool like this (assuming it works, I haven't tested it personally) is a bit of a "Firesheep" moment in that it could bring what was always possible but kind of geeky-hard to the masses in one easy to use tool, which could wreak a lot of havoc.
Why would they be worried? Rolling your own Kickstarter has many issues that Kickstarter deals with, scalability, payment processing, there's all manner of things. Sure, if you really care so much about that 5% that you're willing to dump all the advantages of Kickstarter then you'll get to save 5%, but do you think kickstarter are surprised that people are cloning the idea for their own usage?

If you're a project creator, let's say you're Lockitron and you don't have any web developers on staff, do you try and hire someone or get a friend on board to try and manage a website that could, if the project blows up, suffer from a metric fuckton of traffic, traffic that lots of websites cannot handle? Or do you say "eh, we'll sacrifice the 5% for the stability and branding of Kickstarter"?

If your website goes down for 24 hours because you can't cope with the traffic and your developers are inexperienced you could lose a lot of money, it can be make or break for projects that get media coverage. Who's going to put money into a project that can't even keep a website online?

Then there's the fact that there are dozens of Kickstarter alternatives out there already, with lower fees and other advantages, like no project limits. Why aren't Kickstarter crying themselves to sleep over that?

I really doubt Kickstarter have anything other than "heh" to say about this. Hell, they might even gain from this because people will develop new ideas that Kickstarter can fold into their product.
> Without studies, we don't actually know whether the skills in resisting distraction during meditation actually transfer to other situations.

From my own limited experience it does indeed generalise to all situations, the scientific evidence for that hypothesis is building (some links to studies can be found above). It does become self-evident if you meditate regularly for a while though. It shouldn't take long to at least get a feel for how it works if not a clear demonstration of the principle that the studies can only hint at.
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> That is a description of a historical event, not an original work :)

Tell that to a historian and then run. You better run fast.
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I think you will find that very few people in this world understand risk better than insurance companies. They were not victimized here.
> wikis written by individual writers

You've just missed the point so completely I believe there should be an award for the magnitude of missing-the-point you have achieved.
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Paypal finally close to what it deserves
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VCs are often forbidden by their agreements with their LPs to invest in certain types of business. I forget what they are exactly, but it's not simply a matter of taboos.
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Gambling, Drugs, Prostitution, Porn. In general, any business already controlled by the mob or blue collar criminals.
Thanks for the quick response pg, would you say in addition to being bound legally, there is a cultural bias against certain types of businesses (assume fully legal)?
Agreed. The eye tracking required to move from thumbnails placed in different regions to the center of the screen is a bit too much work.

Enlarging the image right where it is might work better. Just a hunch though.
You may not be a dualist, but you sound like a negativist. It's nobody's job here to convince you of the benefits of meditation beyond the reams of research out there that for some reason you question.

Regardless, the structural changes to the brain are one of the effects, not the cause. The cause is of those structural changes is mental.

The goal here is changes that are highly subjective and personal. If meditation helps people, that is its goal, so to complain there is no evidence is nonsensical.

I guarantee you if you learn to meditate and master a form successfully, you will not be in HN forums demanding evidence.

Transcendental Meditation, as cultish as it is, is one of the most researched forms of meditation and there is a massive amount of research on its benefits. Go have a ball with that.
It wasn't a 95%/99% of the satellite making it; those were the chances that there wouldn't be an incident with the ISS if the upper stage activated.

The Falcon 9 ended up in a slightly different position/velocity than was expected, and the primary mission (deliver to the ISS and don't dare run anything into it) took complete priority over the secondary mission of launching the other satellite into a high orbit.
It's very interesting, thank you for posting. One question I have is inspired by some of the discussion about WebGL. You know as well as anyone that one of the most obnoxious and pernicious side-effects is non-termination. This is bad enough in the CPU, but when DoS-like attacks are perpetrated on the GPU shaders or other I/O ports, we can create unfortunate lockups and non-responsiveness. Have you heard of any academic work on this issue?
Gambling seems like a no go because of legalities in the US, but there's a huge gambling technology sector in the EU and UK where it's legal.
"excessive meetings"

Based on that criteria we could probably cut some 15% of the total workforce. For many employees, that's all they do is attend meetings, all day long. We call these employees managers. :)

Startups where almost everyone is actually working (save VC chosen CEO's) and there's no room for corporate welfare I guess bigger companies might perceive them as "nimble".

Is that a euphemism for efficient?
I can't find a link to the repository from the demo, so here for anyone else: https://github.com/t3hprogrammer/flipgrid.js
The new wave for octal notation is 0o1234; it's supported by haskell and some others and seems much cleaner to my tastes.
It seems more like the law was written to be as narrow as possible in achieving its goal, as I believe laws should be. The problem is that the law's goal was very different from how it was being applied in this case, and the courts decided that instead of bending the law, they would follow it.
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Porn is controlled by criminals?
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You cannot say both of these things together and be a decent human being:

I asked if he regretted anything he had posted, now that he'd be found out. No, he said. "I would stand by exactly what I've done."

"My wife is disabled. I got a home and a mortgage, and if this hits the fan, I believe this will affect negatively on my employment," he said. "I do my job, go home watch TV, and go on the internet. I just like riling people up in my spare time."

So the real answer is yes, he does regret it, will probably have real percussions that affect him and his family and saying things online should be filtered with the same level as if you were talking to someone in person.

Free speech does not mean speech without responsibility.
First of all good luck with you project looks like a beaut.

With regards to eyeballs. With eyeballs comes competition. I wonder if Lockitron would have as much success had they used Kickstarter.
"Which is the exact detail of the Romney Tax Plan that makes all the numbers add up. Governor Romney is the detail. He will take all the unsolved variables in the algorithm that is our desire to reduce the budget deficit , increase economic growth and thereby increase employment and negotiate them into the outcome that will solve this country’s financial problem."

LOL. This entire post basically amounts to "just trust this guy, he's Governor Romney!". Facts? Numbers? Nobody needs these things. Let's gloss over all the evil things that were done at Bain. Unicorns and rainbows, just vote for my guy based on these vague promises of low tax utopia!

"- He will work to remove regulatory impediments to energy production and innovation that raise costs to consumers and limit job creation."

Let's conflate innovation with the ability to destroy the environment however we see fit.

"He was hired to fix the state of Massachusetts and he feels certain that he did."

That's some debatable propaganda right there. We should always believe anything someone feels.

And then, of course, it ends with this:

"I’m not saying you should or should not vote for either of the candidates."

LOL again. All that illogical fawning stuff I said up above? Just ignore that. Vote for whoever you want. Just wanted to get my "feelings" out there. On my blog. With lots and lots of subscribers. No one's going to read this.
- hackers don't read source code

All one has to do is look at the source for ping and questions like these are answered.
Seems to be a sweeping generalization but it does seem like the porn industry attracts a certain "seedier" element of folks. These same folk also happen to be amazing marketers and I can point to many techniques on landing pages, SEO, etc. that were first leveraged by the adult industry.
What the author calls "impulses" the Buddha called sankhara, or reactivity. The ones the OP is talking about are minor reactions.

These reactions do indeed impede our progress, as when our actions are driven by reaction we are not fully aware of what's going on around us. I first recognized the practical implications of this playing billiards - when I would strike a ball and miss, I would feel slightly dejected, and neglect to analyze what I just did to learn from it. When I would strike a ball and make it, I would feel slightly elated, and neglect to understand what I just did to learn from it.

My game got a lot better when I started playing the game, fascinated but detached from outcomes. There are a remarkable number of ways to strike a ball wrong - and it is interesting to consider why, having learned the game sufficiently, one would ever strike the ball wrong. Where does the variation creep in? Why, if I examine a table and decide to put the cue ball "just so", can I not do that? The answer, of course, is that there is countless non-verbal data that your body is sending you on each stroke - feedback from your bridge hand, the hand on the cue, even your stance and the feel of the felt all factor into this.

If you are attached to the outcome, all of this goes out the window. There is nervousness, fear, and excitement instead of systematic understanding.
It should; all of the material quotes in this article came from a SpaceX public relations agent and not from independent space analysts. Not exactly objective. The only quote from Orbicomm is practically a tautology.
From what I recall, the Orbcomm satellite was supposed to be left in a 350km x 750km orbit by the Falcon 9, and would then use its own reserves to achieve a basically circular orbit, 750km x 750km.
Exactly what we need. Another language to compile into JS. This isn't a framework. That at least might be mildly amusing.
There is a grey area that also exists for "dating" applications (ex. Grindr) etc that could be used for other purposes.
Great point of view...
Generally couldn't it be moreso that being involved in porn is part of the definition of "seedy?" It's not the people themselves, but guilt by association.
What about APIs/SDKs like Betable? I know it's a UK based company, but does this allow others outside of UK to legally use it (ex. in the US?)
Wouldn't that just be an MORPG?
the phrase "90% of everything is horseshit" really fits paypal - and that's alot of shit when you'r a juggernaut of that size
Stripe is good for C2B payments. But they suck at marketplace payment processing.

The only company that can do international marketplace payment processing is PayPal and no one is even close to creating the infrastructure for this.
Just wanted you to know that I added support for password protection. There's an example and documentation on the API page.
Nope, you're spot-on. The Solr Wiki reads like it expects you to be the person who wrote the entire system.
The primary mission was a success. The secondary mission was a failure. $10 million probably covers Orbcomm's launch costs.

SpaceX is awesome, but this isn't an unqualified win. There are groups out for SpaceX's head and they will try (unsuccessfully, I hope) to use this "engine incident" against them. SpaceX did not want this to happen at all.
And Stripe to hire 400 people over the next few weeks! I hope thats true.
Exactly. I am surprised that the author even asked.
SolidTrustPay is another one although they are also a pain to deal with.
You are incorrect, but my fees are pretty steep, and I accept cash only, so I can't explain it to you here.
Good job. Any idea why using the parameters specified in the video description of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I do not seem to replicate the output of the video? http://jsfiddle.net/CSyUb/45/

I tried the same parameters in the version downloadable at http://sourceforge.net/projects/smoothlife/ and it did not seem to produce similar output to the video either.
Fresh, unprocessed placebo effect, direct from the source... delicious :)
Yes, this might make securing your device easier. But more and more, what I value is on the network - not my local hard drive. Be it a local network git repository, my ISP's email system or my cloud based apps (including my bank's internet portal).

So this hypothetical browser.exe with "only" network connectivity still needs just good a security model as today's browser. And how do know the new browser.exe I downloaded today doesn't have a poisoned security model that allows it to sniff and send my internet banking credentials to the bad guys?
Let's not forget their international presence. PayPal is classified as a bank in many countries.
Awesome, way to think outside of the "box"!
and not with an actual product.

It's more a service, but whatever it is, they do have an "actual" one.

PayPal has been a cornerstone of my income since around 2001. Nowadays, there are several other services I could (and might) practically switch to, but for a good 8 years or so, it was them or nothing in the sort of business I ran. I consider that an "actual" product or service since without it, I wouldn't be where I am now.

I am far from a PayPal evangelist and find a lot of the stories about their practices saddening, but the facts are clear to me, they've offered me one heck of a useful service over the years that no-one else was able to.
Agree, but there is nothing here about a "Foreign" language, he was Indian and thus there is (an) official spelling in English of his name.[1,2]

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[1] Birth/death records, etc.

[2] During the British Raj, English was used for most official purposes both at the federal level and in the various states.[7] The Indian constitution adopted in 1950, envisaged the gradual phasing in of Hindi, to replace English over a fifteen-year period, but gave Parliament the power to, by law, provide for the continued use of English even thereafter.[8] But resistance to making Hindi the sole official language has resulted in English being retained for official uses. English continues to be used today, in combination with Hindi (at the central level and in some states) and other languages (at the state level).
There's a subtle reason why VCs will avoid certain kinds of businesses that is not clear until you are inside the sausage factory, which is that your LPs (investors) are sensitive to bad perception and publicity. Specifically your sponsor within an LP such as an endowment or foundation reports to an Investment Committee which is typically extremely conservative. In the worst case, you could put your sponsor's career at risk in their own profession.
It doesn't even load.

BalancedPayments is very good but they only do U.S.
> So maybe EBM is abused in practice... but I don't see your examples showing this.

I was giving a (paraphrased) example from my history - it was 10 years ago, and I didn't keep my notes.

But Seth's example is typical: A result (negative in this case) applicable very narrowly is assumed to apply very broadly (By a top practictioner in the field, and his view is unlikely to be rejected; most readers will take his conclusion without trying to confirm or criticize the rationale).

> the effect from bad timing should either be undetectable due to contaminating only 1/31 of the data (1 day out of each month), or if the negative effect is persistent over many days, renders every single anecdote & self-experiment (including mine) completely unreliable trash since none of them were expecting an effect which contaminates so many days.

I don't follow you; In this experiment, they gave 100,000IU once a month; meaning that there must be a sharp rise in the beginning, followed by a decay which we believe (from other experiments) to happen slowly over a month.

If the effects are modulated by the _delta_ in vitamin D, rather than the _level_ (e.g. if there's a phase-locked-loop somewhere), then Seth's reasoning applies perfectly well: In the JAMA experiment, there is a (very small) constant negative delta, and nothing for a biological PLL synthesizer to "lock on" to - whereas with your experiment (and other anecdata collected by Seth), the sleep cycle can be locked onto the Vitamin D delta (with 12 hour delay), and all would make sense.

> so anyone trying to refute them so simplistically would be engaged in poor reasoning;

Yes, that's exactly my point. Most people who think they follow EBM are actually engaged in poor reasoning, and even worse meta-reasoning, as in: "The fact that other people did not notice that this evidence is inadequte, is evidence that YOUR reasoning is flawed". Yes, more than one person with an MD/PhD told me that if what I claim about how B12 is produced is right, they would have learned about it in school; even after they relented and looked it up themselves!

Furthermore, most placebo-controlled double-blinded experiments are not actually blinded: the substance or procedure being tested is known to have an effect (e.g. dry mouth) but it is not known if it has the desired effect. The placebo is known to have no effect (e.g. sugar pills). The patient therefore knows when they got the real thing (though they're still in the dark if they got the placebo).

The only way this is ever controlled for (if at all), is by comparing to an accepted substance/procedure used for the same purpose - which might, itself, be subject to the same kind of bias.

So, to cut a long story short ... The ideal of EBM is nice. The practice is very, very far away, but is assumed by most EBM proponents to have all the properties of the ideal.
A well-made typewriter is currently worth more than most startups. Indeed, even a poorly made typewriter is probably more useful than all of the social networking, kickstarter, and faddish clones currently flooding SV; it will certainly provide more value to its user and society.
Like in the past, hopefully browser authors and working groups take what is being done in JavaScript frameworks, and makes those tasks easier to implement and platform/browser agnostic.

It is work like this that is the direct reason that web developers today are able to fantastic things in CSS instead of retarded amounts of JavaScript animation and UI programming.

I doubt many of today's developers truly appreciate how amazingly easy it is do stuff like this now:

A:hover {color:orange}